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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: ingress filtering
At 08:57 AM 5/29/98 -0400, you wrote: >> Actually it has nothing to do with WINS. If all the ISP's would >implement > >Bzzt. Thank you for playing, though. If it were not for WinS, there >wouldn't >be a second packet being sent, no matter what junk is the payload. Thanks. I knew I wasn't crazy and seriously doubted that my sniffer was inventing these packets just to piss me off. >Now I agree ISP's should do better DNS resolution, but every MS box >plugged into >the net sending a second packet adds up to a lot of junk packets eating >up >expensive bandwidth. MS catches the blunt of the critisizm because they >are the >only ones to have adopted such a lame networking scheme, and then forced >it >down others quotes. As stated before: [OverKill]:/# nslookup www.stefcam.com Server: NS1.ENTERZONE.NET Address: 209.41.244.5 Name: STEFCAM.COM Address: 209.41.244.238 Aliases: www.stefcam.com [OverKill]:/# nslookup 209.41.244.238 Server: NS1.ENTERZONE.NET Address: 209.41.244.5 Name: StefCAM.Com Address: 209.41.244.238 By the way, Stronghold will refuse to bind to an address that does not reverse so, I knew it was right even before the lookup. ------- John Fraizer (root) | __ _ | The System Administrator | / / (_)__ __ ____ __ | The choice mailto:[email protected] | / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / | of a GNU http://www.EnterZone.Net/ | /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ | Generation A 486 is a terrible thing to waste...
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